Just some final impressions of the Beta. I ended up liking it in the end despite my initial beefs with it.
I just had to unlearn much of my Street Fighter tendencies - took quite the effort. Slow everything down, focus on counters and hit confirms.
Whats here is a good game - but whats lost is Street Fighters signature, easy to pick up difficult to master. SF2 was fun for everyone. Noobs will stand a less than zero chance in this game. This one seems to be for the FGC community only - especially when people go wild with the green drive stuff. Maybe thats why they are making those easy mode controls.
I ended up logging into 10 hours or so and kept wanting to test more with the parries and such. Somehow I registered in at Platinum thru ranked play by the end of the beta.
The game is similar to Virtua Fighter to me, in that theres so much to think about and look out for, that I ended up having brainfarts on many occasions being overwhelmed by it all. Again, that aspect feels very 'un-street fighter' to me.
It doesnt come close to SF3 imo, but things have to evolve and grow - so I will likely buy this once it drops.
Thanks to
A
abstract alien
KO7
Celcius
and
fallingdove
for convincing me to give it another shot.